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Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Rishi Sunak’s government should expand a windfall tax on the “excessive” profits of the oil giants, outgoing climate minister Alok Sharma has said. The senior Tory – president of the Cop26 summit – urged the […] More
Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Rishi Sunak has been warned his decision to not attend the crucial Cop27 climate summit in Egypt in little over a week undermines the UK’s climate leadership as the world slips behind targets to limit […] More
Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Rishi Sunak will not attend next month’s crucial Cop27 summit in Egypt, even as hopes of a deal to avoid runaway climate change begin to fade. Liz Truss was set to go to at least […] More
The ban on shale gas fracking will be reinstated, the prime minister told MPs on Wednesday, in a U-turn on a policy launched by Liz Truss’s short-lived government.Rishi Sunak said during Prime Minister’s Questions that he stands by the 2019 Conservative Party manifesto, which banned fracking unless the science shows “categorically” that it can be done safely.Green groups, conservationists and climate activists described the return of the ban as an “incredibly positive” result on the prime minister’s first full day in office. More
Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Green groups called on the new Business Secretary Grant Shapps to ban fracking on Wednesday morning, while his appointment has been broadly met with relief that he isn’t Jacob Rees-Mogg but concern that he may […] More
Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Jacob Rees-Mogg is facing legal action over his decision to lift the moratorium on fracking in England. Environmental and community groups have sent a legal letter, seen by The Independent, to notify the business secretary […] More
Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Conservative MPs are said to be discussing with Labour ways to block Liz Truss’s move to allow fracking at sites across England. The prime minister is determined to press ahead with plans to boost drilling […] More
Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email It is vital for Britons to change their behaviours if the UK is to tackle the climate crisis – but the government is not doing enough to help, according to a new report. The House […] More
